Tag: abortion

“Twelve years later, I birthed my son on my sister’s death day.”

Black women face outsized threats if Roe v. Wade is overturned.

Activist and author Robin Marty says the biggest threat facing women in a post-Roe America would be arrest, not death.

“There was so much I could have given her, but it pales in comparison to what she gave me.”

Compromise and political reform only take you so far; sometimes you need to shake the whole system.

On pregnancy, demons, and Stranger Things.

When patients trying to access healthcare services at Planned Parenthood clinics face a gauntlet of anti-choice protestors, escorts offer physical safety and emotional support.

He’s not very good at his job.

Under the Global Gag Rule, medical professionals cannot counsel a woman to seek an abortion — even in cases where it will save her life.

First-hand knowledge of the trauma of sexual assault has informed Allred’s fight against it.

After an emergency operation, Joanna Petrone considers the medical advances and legal protections that allow women to survive ectopic pregnancies.

In Don Waters’ short story “Full of Days,” a grieving Las Vegas man uses an anti-abortion billboard to justify his own pained existence.

For her essay in the New Yorker, Kate Daloz relied on a precious set of letters to tell the story of her grandmother’s abortion.

In 1970, a homeless woman pregnant with her third child met with two lawyers at a pizzeria in Dallas. Did it matter, in the end, who Jane Roe really was?

Last week, on February 18th, Norma McCorvey — aka “Jane Roe,” the plaintiff in the 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court case that legalized abortion — passed away. Four years ago, in February, 2013, Vanity Fair published this fascinating profile of of her.

“I had a sinking feeling when I opened the letter and saw who the sender was,” Dr. Chastine recounted to me over email. “These were the same people who’d just mounted a full scale campaign to make my professional life unpleasant. I couldn’t help but take it as an announcement: We know where you live. […]